QOTW: Are you considering AMD Radeon RX Vega?

AMD has lifted the lid on its eagerly awaited Radeon RX Vega graphics cards. RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56 will be first to market, priced from $499 and $399, respectively, and a variety of Radeon Packs will be available for consumers wanting to buy into the Ryzen, Vega and FreeSync ecosystem.

Our benchmarks are due later this month, but Radeon fans hoping that Vega would steal the performance crown from Nvidia will likely be left wanting. AMD has confirmed that RX Vega 64 will compete with GeForce GTX 1080, leaving the 1080 Ti at the top of the pile, while RX Vega 56 will slug it out with GTX 1070.

AMD Radeon RX Vega Specifications

Model

Radeon RX Vega 64
Liquid Cooled Edition

Radeon RX Vega 64

Radeon RX Vega 56

Vega 10 Compute Units

64

64

56

Stream Processors

4,096

4,096

3,584

Base Clock

1,406MHz

1,247MHz

1,156MHz

Boost Clock

1,677MHz

1,546MHz

1,471MHz

Memory Bandwidth

484GB/s

484GB/s

410GB/s

Peak SP Performance

13.7 TFLOPS

12.7 TFLOPS

10.5 TFLOPS

High Bandwidth Cache (HMB2)

8GB

8GB

8GB

TDP

345W

295W

210W

MSRP

$699

$499

$399

Vega's official specifications make for interesting reading, though the quoted TDPs may be cause for concern, and we wonder whether or not the MSRPs will remain intact if the mining community takes a liking to AMD's latest GPUs.

Plenty of food for thought, so after these latest developments let's gauge the community reaction by asking: are you considering AMD Radeon RX Vega? Let us know what you make of the GPUs, and the unexpected Radeon Packs, using the comments facility below.